skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Play also prioritizes the recent reviews, they have much more weight on the overall ranking.
I mean, they obviously just didn't want non-members in the store.
I think this is possible, but do we know for a fact this is the case? Melvin claims they already got out of the GME trade. They could be lying, but they would open themselves to a lawsuit from investors if they were.

I'm not sure if Citadel can just refuse to purchase GME (RH could just go elsewhere), but maybe they said they wouldn't pay RH anymore for order flow unless they blocked it. But do we know that Citadel did this? I've only heard speculation to that effect.
> But the counter is that entrepreneurship has strong network effects, it really pays to be around other talented people and hear about the future they're busy inventing.

The actual powerful network effects are essentially a somewhat benign form of cronyism, not mere inspiration from other entrepreneurs. People do more business with less haggling with friends than with strangers.
The quantity of potential capital raised I would assume.
"Coincidentally"
A100 vs. V100 multi-GPU deep learning benchmarks
Margin accounts have capital requirements. If you’re over leveraged, they will liquidate your positions to ensure you have capital. This is standard. If people didn’t know about this, they have no business with a margin account.
So because -company- does illegal thing and people respond by using whatever means they have Google should silence the masses of disaffected users just because some people changed their rating? That is some grade a:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
EDIT: I was wrong, this was removed because it was a repost. However I wish the mods would say why it was removed.

Justin Kan posted a tweet about this. I also tried to screenshot and post it to r/wallstreetbets but it got deleted by mods. The mods of r/wallstreetbets themselves are complicit in this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wallstreetbetsnew/comments/l75z6o/m...
I do not need an expensive car anymore when I am working from home. That alone is huge benefit.
A story I heard at Sun, which may be apocryphal but was fucking hilarious enough to be a repeatable rumor, was that a release of an early operating system in BETA was determined to be solid and tested and ready to release and ship to customers, so they simply changed the version string from something like "SunOS2.1BETA" to "SunOS2.1FCS" (First Customer Ship), and recompiled. But the change from a 12 character version to an 11 character version threw off the alignment of some important data structures somewhere in the kernel, and the entire OS ran MUCH SLOWER because of 68k unaligned memory accesses!
Has anyone brought up the Sunk Cost fallacy yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect
nothing like being disingenuous to ride the hype train
I'm aware of what gambling is, and all the forms it can take from rolling dice in an alley to investing in the stock market.

Your first post was trying to differentiate GameStop from Tesla. Neither have assets that support their price or that there is something inherent in the company to support that value. They don't. They have projections(Tesla) or excitement(GS).

Throwing up a bunch of survivor-biased stocks to prove that sometimes people make winning bets (or rather, that some best win) doesn't mean anything. Amazon, Apple, MS all eventually moved past speculative and most people in the market would assume that they're pretty stable blue chips (in fact, that's why we have terms like "blue chip" in the first place) with assists that support the price.

I'm not talking about how to make big money on stocks, I'm talking about the idea of inherent vs projected value. You said you think Tesla is risky, and that's my point. It seems much more likely that someone (car companies, energy cos, the government) would come in and kick the legs out from under Tesla than any FAANG company at this point (except maybe FB but I might just be projecting there)
DoNotPay app adds ability to join Robinhood class action
These people are already billionaires or large multi millionaires.

If I had a billion dollars and could get 2 billion dollars but I'd go to jail for 5 years, I would absolutely NOT do that thing.
And how do you measure innovation in poor families? Does jerry-rigging your car to work using duct tape and aluminum cans count?
> But the development is slow, last major release was in Mar 2019.

I'm afraid it seems pretty much dead at this point... Looking at https://github.com/KDE/falkon/commits/master there's only a (non-automated) commit all couple of months or so. Also see https://github.com/KDE/falkon/graphs/contributors
The source is their need to belong to a group that treats asserting a belief in this horse shit an in-group shibboleth.

Much like religious groups that use exposure to non-believers as ways to discourage defection, ridicule from outsiders helps keep them in the fold.
Lambda Calculus for JavaScript Part IV
There are lots of skilled but civic minded people in all the three letter agencies. The problem isn't people, it's ideology. Namely market fetishism and the assumption that if you're rich you just know better.
A Look at iMessage in iOS 14
If there's one thing to take away from the GME debacle it is that organized, incentivized retail investors can make a stock do crazy things.

Now take that and multiply it by a factorial with the general interest, shilling, and breadth of the crypto community!

Recipe for INSANITY around this listing.
I don't think it's coming from RobinHood; eToro is also blocking buys and they have the message "We have made this change following a notification from our liquidity provider that they have set $GME to close only status".
My question is specifically about the equities trading.

Unless I'm mistaken...

* The market continues to operate irrespective of whether there is a market maker. If the exchange decides to close trading then its halted. But they don't halt just because a market maker fails to make market, and if they did, they'd halt it for everyone not just discount brokers. No market maker would just mean you just have to cross with whoever is on the other side. That would be a bigger issue in low volume markets, but GME etc is pretty busy right now :)

* RobinHood wouldn't care or know anyway. Why would they care that a market maker is having a bad day? Why inconvenience their clients while other brokers keep serving theirs? For all they know, the market maker is too far long and would really appreciate offloading some inventory.

* Market makers don't get to pick and choose who they trade with. They can't make market for the big boys but not for the discount brokers.

Sorry if I've missed some crucial point here. Can you enlighten me?
I smelled a rat in Robinhood back when they first showed up. When something goes from paid to free, the only appropriate response is to question how that happened, and what changes in motivation now exist.
The main thread on this is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941431.

For pointers to the rest of this massive story graph, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933543.

Although HN's guidelines call for original sources (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), it's generally better to avoid corporate press releases, especially on controversial topics where they tend to use bland, obscure language and bury the lede.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I believe this is different because the SEC is involved, and if the SEC involved decides to rule that a broker cannot limit what stocks can be bought or sold because that would break the legal definition of what a brokerage is.

Does anyone know the law well enough to know if this is indeed a violation of any statutes?
Nice one. I thought about making this earlier today. Now I don't have to!
> That's really interesting, I should look into that pattern, maybe it can be applied elsewhere (I have to maintain a vb6 application at work, and I'm not terribly interested in doing that anymore).

I hadn't used C# for years, I was shocked that the winforms designer duct taped to a community contributed Firebase library, was able to get a prototype out in hours.

I had been using JS for 2 years at that point. I estimate at 10x-15x productivity boost in C# over JS.

The C# tooling is just that good.

Now if I'd been trying to learn XAML or something at the same time, eh, probably wouldn't have gone as well.

Of course the downside here is that a Winforms app is hard to distribute, and usable only on Windows desktops.

The react web app was, well, beautiful, and usable everywhere.

But I could have written the C# app once for every platform I care about and still been better off.

Ugh, I am sad that Winforms is only ever going to be Win32 based.
So what - somehow somewhere someone will have the power to jail these white collar criminals for their entire life, but they don't have the power to make a 5 year jail sentence more uncomfortable?

Your objection doesn't even make sense.
Personally, rather than printing things out and then setting them on fire, I've preferred printing things out then when I'm done with it donating them to be shredded and used as horse bedding.

Some code just deserves to end its life being shat on by a horse.
Note that Otter Browser uses QtWebKit by default, which is based on a 2018 WebKit with many known security issues: https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases
Buying was halted. Held shares can still be sold, if you so chose.

That’s what I’m seeing in RH when I look at the small amount of Blackberry (BB) shared I own.
You can sell used games on craigslist, ebay, facebook marketplace, or any number of places... often for better prices than GameStop will give you.
> But Melvin Capital announced that they closed out their short position. And bailing out Melvin Capital isn't the same thing as assuming their positions.

Yeah, arm's length transactions are a means of providing truth to falsity, and perfectly crafted statements are in the same category.

The only thing missing from these press releases is "to the best of my knowledge"
The loophole here is that all new Robinhood accounts are margin accounts by default. You have to go through a process to switch from a margin account to a cash account and I suspect 95% of Robinhood's customers have no idea what the difference is or why they'd ever want to do that.

So Robinhood technically is allowed to do this as per the letter of the law, and now the question is whether Robinhood is violating any fiduciary duties they have to their customers.
> You are a shill and I have reported you.

This is surely against the HN community guidelines.

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."
Obviously this was planned well in advance, but what a day to make this announcement.
My contributions are fixes that I need now. So after I fix the issue for my usecase I fire off a PR upstream.

As a maintainer you are free to close my PR, or work togheter with me to bring it in line with your project standards.
There are dozens of trading platforms, and RH isn't the only major one that offers free trades.

I expect that a lot of RH users are going to do some research and discover that there are alternatives that are just as good, or even better.
The elites will be fine regardless, they understand what they're doing and will just exit positions with losses if the they determine the risk is too high.

You know who want be fine? The idiot retail investors who actually use robinhood as a broker, lose all their money and can't pay rent because they lost it all gambling on something they didn't understand.

It won't be the elites holding the worthless stock when it inevitable crashes to 0.
This is a pretty biased take on what's been happening.

The 2020 election's fraud claims were thrown out by courts. They were entirely evidence-free. Even Lindsey Graham gave a concise speech on the night of 1/6 explaining precisely how false those fraud claims were.

The 2016 election involved Russia hacking the DNC and leaking their emails, which became a centerpiece of the election debate ("Hillary's emails!"). It also involved Trump publicly asking for Russia to leak the emails, and then (once elected) firing the head of the FBI and saying in an interview with Lester Holt it was because Comey was investigating any possible ties with Russia.

The response to 2016 was the Mueller investigation. The response to 2020 was an attempted insurrection. One of these is not like the other, and you're attempting to paint a false political logic behind how the two have been treated.
By mob you mean the users who are justifiably upset the app is not working as expected by not allowing them to buy and forcing sales without user permission.
This article has a good summary of what exactly happened: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/redditors-took-hedge-f...
It also really helps in the opposite direction. Games that had release issues but fixed most of them have mediocre overall reviews but positive recent reviews, and I've found that's a pretty good sign that a game is worth trying. Without that separation, it would be much harder for the game to get over its rocky launch.
While vote flooding via some confined social circle is a form of trolling I don’t think this case fits that criteria. This news isn’t limited to a subreddit. This news is everywhere, suggesting any vote flood is more likely natural and organic than not.
Seems fair. The app has rendered itself useless.
I think more to the point would be the arbitration agreement in section 38. Not condoning the behavior but it seems that kind of agreement might limit a class action suit.
Do you expect that making money on the bubble should be quick and painless?
Absolutely not, this is fucking insane. Ken Griffin is going to jail.
I got similar email from tasty. They said Apex clearing won't allow any new positions on meme stocks.

Given that it's not just RH, but nearly all, if not all, brokers that outsource order flow like RH...I think it's safe to assume it wasn't RH decision.
I disagree on that point. The '08 financial crisis was not so clear-cut as to trace back to one single regulation being "rolled back". And it's not clear to me, that whatever vulnerabilities existed in the system then, have somehow been patched up today. We could and still very well might have another large meltdown in the markets in the near future.
Not only they cheated their own users, they also artificially manipulated the market and that eventually defrauded users of other brokers who legitimately expected a buy pressure coming from Robinhood users.

So, 1-star is even too much, jail time would be preferred.
Do people really believe that it was a coup attempt though? I see people framing it that way but always assumed it was political exaggeration
AMD Navi 23 GPU block diagram for Tesla 2021 infotainment system has been leaked
I consider review bombing a legitimate form of boycott.

"BOYCOTT, the refusal and incitement to refusal to have commercial or social dealings with any one on whom it is wished to bring pressure."
I just wish they'd say that they have a vested interest in the ponzi scheme failing rather than telling me I'm not smart enough to make the decision to throw my money away.

And that's really what this is all about.
Economies of scale and specialization. Same reason not everyone is fabbing their own chips, running their own power plant, digging for their own oil and growing their own fruit. Aside from people living in complete isolation from the rest of the world, we all put a price on freedom at some point.
Ah, I was unaware, nice catch.
thinkorswim or tastytrade. Though both did the same or similar as Robinhood with stopping opening positions. I just got an email from tastytrade saying that restriction was lifted.
My mistake - after rereading your comment I understand what you were saying.

I agree with you actually - I generally find overuse of profanity in real life leaves a bad impression on me too.

I just think the wsb context is a bit of a different thing and the word use in some contexts is fine.

It's also likely some of this is colored by other related word policing I find to be more stupid, (like saying 'on the other hand' is ableist). I have a general bias towards not policing words.
In my nigh on 30 years of work, mostly using and writing open source, I have never been compensated for writing software. I have been compensated for solving problems. The fact that it involved writing software was irrelevant.

I would argue that compensating developers for building software is the wrong way to look at it. IBM (and possibly Red Hat?) are mostly consulting companies---the development work they pay for is in support of their consulting.
It'd be hard to do so without getting a little too specific but I will add two pieces of context:

1) The company has a small technical corner, but is mostly a non-technical org.

2) The average age of the company is quite a bit older than one more focused on technology might stereotypically be and, at the risk of sounding ageist, has proven to be far less interested in engaging with modern technologies that would make WFH smooth/productive.
FreeBSD/i386 demoted to Tier 2 for FreeBSD 13.x
RH could not just go elsewhere; moreover, they absolutely could not go elsewhere today. Handling order flow for automated transactions isn't something you can find on short notice.
That's why you version your file formats and network protocols. Actually, designing file formats and network protocols is one of the few areas in software engineering where you do really need future-proof design and extreme extensibility, because once you release the thing, these are set in stone. Yet not many people seem to realize this. They instead "future-proof" their code with useless abstraction layers.

Anyway. Versioning helps you avoid ugly workarounds if you need to extend your format in the future in ways that its current version doesn't allow. You then keep the code for older versions as a backwards-compatibility-only kind of deal and move on to the new one.
Today it opened at $265, hit a high of $483 and dropped to a low of $112. At 2:00 pm it was $226, 2:05pm it was $431, and then came back down to $237 at 2:15pm. That sort of volatility is, I think, unprecedented which means the market makers don't have good risk models. So you're right that they could be cleaning up here with a large spread. But that profit comes at unknown levels of risk.
Wonder if I should cash in my BTC on Robinhood. If they go under then I lose everything right?
Afaik there is a recording of Nixon saying that they want to use drug penalties to go after black people and hippies. A lot of times those racially biased outcomes are the product of many unrelated parts of a big and complicated system, but in this case the top of executive government seemed pretty deliberate about this.
>> The devices could also work well within neural networks, which are machine learning systems that use synthetic versions of synapses and neurons to mimic the process of learning in the human brain.

Yann LeCun disagrees:

IEEE Spectrum: We read about Deep Learning in the news a lot these days. What’s your least favorite definition of the term that you see in these stories?

Yann LeCun: My least favorite description is, “It works just like the brain.” I don’t like people saying this because, while Deep Learning gets an inspiration from biology, it’s very, very far from what the brain actually does. And describing it like the brain gives a bit of the aura of magic to it, which is dangerous. It leads to hype; people claim things that are not true. AI has gone through a number of AI winters because people claimed things they couldn’t deliver.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/artificial-intelligence/...
Twitter has a monopoly on things that work exactly like Twitter. That's all. I'm a lot more sympathetic to arguments about how Google and Facebook have a worrying degree of control online, because services owned by them are used by an absolute majority of English speaking people.

Twitter is only used by 22% of Americans as of 2019 [1]. If Twitter banned me I wouldn't even know about it for several months because that's about how frequently I log in. It's important to a certain kind of "very online" person but from my POV it's as inessential as Pinterest or Twitch.

I think that Twitter's perceived importance has been exaggerated beyond its actual user numbers because the previous US President used it so heavily. It was also an easy, cheap, reliable way for other publishers to churn out content. "Trump Tweets Something -- We React" was a daily staple for TV and written publications for 4 years. But 78% of Americans get along just fine without using Twitter itself.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/10/share-of-u-...
Yeah, that’s clearly problematic. I’m no fan of WSB, but it sure as hell looks like Robinhood has done something very bad here.

But the general case of “the market should never interfere with trading” isn’t true, but typically we only allow that at the exchange level.
Your post was removed because it was like the thousandth time it had been posted. It's literally the #2 post on the subreddit right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l747eg/cita...
Robinhood is a private company and can manage their platform as they see fit.
It's disturbing that you find trying to be inclusive offensive because you perceive them as political opponents. I mean, who cares what people's political leanings are if they are making things better for people who haven't been well-served historically?

Similarly, while Microsoft software isn't free nothing in computing is and it seems like an odd angle to criticize an effort to help make their products better based on decisions made by other people in different parts of a huge company, or to criticize them for things in the past which they've since corrected.
Just as a note - Elizabeth Warren is pretty much on the same page:

> “For years, the same hedge funds, private equity firms, and wealthy investors dismayed by the GameStop trades have treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price.”

I find it interesting that folks feel empowered to call out the BS even when they've got a pretty big spotlight on them - instead of being shushed to quiet by monied interests.
How many of the issues above do you control? I could make an argument the zoom calls being the only thing.
That isn't "100% class warfare" then.
I didn't down-vote them yet, because I used to use only the web app and haven't use them in a while, but I will make sure to down-vote.
Unless it’s iCloud E2E, in the high they cave to law enforcement. Standing for privacy there?
> Nowadays, you could just hire from the flyover states, find all the good techies that didn't make the pilgrimage to one of the traditional hotspots, and train them on the last bits on the job for not very much more money than an international team, when all costs are accounted.

Why just the "good" or "perfect" techies?

They need to be less picky about who they hire. One could even go with the less desirable, "diamonds in the rough" candidates and still do well. If it worked passably with guest workers, it can work with flyover candidates.

As for my personal situation, I'd be happy to have options that were more than just government or healthcare.
They got away with worse in 2008?
The source was provided with links to the web archive. Please tell me how it is wrong.
I have no idea where this figure came from but Motherboard tweeted it was somewhere near half robinhood's users (had holdings in GME)

https://mobile.twitter.com/motherboard/status/13547982444553...
Google will moderate/filter out the reviews. And then maybe the mob will go after Google and we will really see if David can harm Goliath.